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Sense and Sensibility quotes

Jane Austen

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“I will be calm, I will be mistress of myself.” Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience—or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.” Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“Mama, the more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.” Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.” Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“how easy for those, who have no sorrow of their own to talk of exertion!” Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.” Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.” Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death; and that was given.” Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.” Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.” Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“It is not every one . . . who has your passion for dead leaves.” Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“there is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.” Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.” Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.” Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“I have never yet known what it was to separate esteem and love.” Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy; but, like every body else it must be in my own way.” Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter into all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.” Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“Mama, the more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!” Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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